Description
The contributors highlight the actual practices of newspaper productionat different regional sites and historical junctures, while also developinga set of methodologies and theories of wider relevance to socialhistorians and literary scholars. The first of four thematic sections,"African Newspaper Networks," considers the work of newspapereditors and contributors in relating local events and concerns to issuesaffecting others across the continent and beyond. "Experiments withGenre" explores the literary culture of newspapers that nurtured thedevelopment of new literary genres, such as newspaper poetry, realistfiction, photoplays, and travel writing in African languages and inEnglish. "Newspapers and Their Publics" looks at the ways in whichAfrican newspapers fostered the creation of new kinds of communitiesand served as networks for public interaction, political and otherwise.The final section, "Afterlives," is about the longue duree of history thatnewspapers helped to structure, and how, throughout the twentiethcentury, print allowed contributors to view their writing as material meantfor posterity.
About the Author
Derek R. Peterson is Professor of History and African Studies at theUniversity of Michigan, USA.
Emma Hunter is Lecturer in African History atthe University of Edinburgh, UK.
Stephanie Newell is Professor of Englishand Senior Research Fellow in International and Area Studies at YaleUniversity, USA.
Book Information
ISBN 9780472053179
Author Derek R. Peterson
Format Paperback
Page Count 440
Imprint The University of Michigan Press
Publisher The University of Michigan Press
Weight(grams) 735g